4 ms·
The company does treat the employees well, the article specifically calls out VCs and executives as the principal actors: > The tech industry is desperate to s
by guhidalg 4y ago
The company does treat the employees well, the article specifically calls out VCs and executives as the principal actors:
> The tech industry is desperate to somehow frame a period of time where it took advantage of low interest rates to recklessly overhire and overinvest as something that created entitled workers. What they don’t want to discuss is the truth that the only people that have ever acted entitled are the already-wealthy ghouls who cry about how workers don’t do enough for their paychecks.
- treis 4y agoBut that's not the truth. You can see it anytime this sort of thread comes up. People think they should be able to work very little and get paid a lot of money as long as they "meet expectation". That's entitlement.
- mrzimmerman 4y agoSure, some people act and think like that. But at the end of the day executives and the C level have no obligation other than returning as large a profit as possible to investors. Additionally, it’s a straw man argument to say that everyone who is being let go currently at a time of record profits is just being a lay about. It’s easy to say until it happens to you, and it shouldn’t. People—our neighbors and fellow humans—deserve better treatment than to be cast aside to make the stock price rise again. Some people have been hard at work on products that were never great, but the direction they took came from leadership. That’s as much a strawman argument, but it belabors the point that making broad judgements on a group is the wrong way to go about taking a position.